Installation view of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Installation view of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Artwork details of exhibition "UOB Painting of the Year", UOB Bank, 2023.
Airbrush paint on car bonnet.
Description
Water Palace represents an ethereal vision of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hanoi, with rain on the car windshield recreated by the artist on a car bonnet. The Cathedral was built on the foundation of the destroyed Báo Thiên tower of Báo Thiên Pagoda. Two layers of covering, space within space, time within time- creating surrealism within realism. This artwork contemplates and questions the clash of values in the course of history and society with a historical manmade structure in contrast to the impermanence of time and memory.
Description from "UOB Painting of the Year" Exhibition, 2023.
